Dental bracket.



No. 846,420. PATENTED MAR. 5, 1907.

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DENTAL BRACKET. A'PPLIOATION rmm APB.28.1908.

UNITED srArns PATENT orrron ALBERT W. MOKENNEY, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

DENTAL BRACKET,

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Be it known that I, ALBERT W. MCKEN- NEYLa citizen of the United States, residing at'jtoxbury, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Dental Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a rotary medicine-holder for dentists use, the object being to provide a neat and convenient holder for the many different drugs and materials used by a dentist in the practice of his profession in combination with receptacles for absorbent cotton and a spirit-lamp, whereby loss of time and annoyance are obviated.

In a dentist s profession a large number of bottles are used containing drugs and medicines of diflerent kinds, and these are usually kept upon a shelf or in a cabinet, and when the dentist desires to use one of them he is obliged to turn to the shelf to obtain the desired bottle in order that he may place the bottle to be immediately used upon a swinging bracket-shelf in a convenient position to be reached while operating upon a patient.

The object of this invention is to arrange all of the drugs and medicines in bottles in a convenient position, so that the dentist may without moving anything but his arm bring any one of said bottles within reach of his hand by sim ly rotating a carrier, preferably of cylindrica form, upon which said bottles are supported.

The invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts set forth in the following specification and particularly pointed out in the claims thereof.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, partly in section, of my improved rotary medicine-holder and bracket. Fig. 2 is a front elevation, partly broken away and shown in section, of the same.

Like numerals refer to like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

In the drawings, 5 is a hollow standard having a base 6, which is adapted to be screwed to the swinging bracket-shelf used by dentists- A carrier 7 is journaled on said standard 5, said standard being preferably cylindrical and having a spindle 8 projecting downwardly therefrom from the center thereof. The spindle 8 is also a tube and has fastened to its upper end a disk 4, which in turn is fastened to the bottom of the carrier 7. This construction enables the carrier to be rotated, together with the spindle 8 and Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 28, 1906. Serial No. 314,132.

Patented March 5, 1907.

disk 1, upon the top of the standard 5. Fast to the periphery of said carrier is a plurality of U-shaped spring-holders 9 9, said holders each being adapted to receive and hold a bottle 10 for drugs or the like. As will be seen, said bottles are firmly held by the springholders 9 ,which are U-shaped with outwardlyflaring ends, so that a bottle may be easily inserted therein by pressing the same toward the center of the carrier and may be easily removed therefrom by a slight pressure forward on the bottom of the bottle.

A spring-socket 11, adapted to receive and hold a spirit-lamp 12, is fastened by a screwthreaded shank 13 to the spindle 8, the shank 13 having screw-threaded engagement with the interior of said spindle and projecting upwardly therefrom. The socket 11 consists of a shell 14-, the upper portion of which is cut out to form a yielding and resilient rim 15, said shell being fastened to a horizontal partition 16, which in turn is rigidly fastened to the top of the shank 13. The lamp 12 is held firmly within the socket 11 by setscrews 17. When the lamp is in position, it rests upon the partition 16, and when it is desired to remove the same from the socket it may be readily done by loosening the setscrews 17 and withdrawing the base of the lamp from the spring-rim 15 of the socket 11.

Side arms 18 18 extend outwardly from the standard 5, said arms being curved upwardly and each being provided with a spring-socket 19, adapted to receive a glass g obe 20, said globe having a hole 21 in the top thereof, one of these globes being used for new absorbent cotton, while the other may be used for cotton that has been discarded. The sockets 19 are substantially the same in construction as the socket 11, each having a shank 22, which has screwthreaded engagement with the interior of the upper end of one of the arms 18. The globes 20 are securely held in place by screws 23 and may be detached from the sockets in the same manner as hereinbefore described with relation to the spirit-lamp and socket 11.

It will be seen that by the use of my invention the dentist always has at hand any drug or material which he may need by simply rotating the carrier 7 to bring the desired bottle into position, so that he may easily remove it from said carrier. He also has con veniently at hand a new supply of cotton and a receptacle for discarded cotton, as well as the lamp, thus saving much time and anto himself and the patient.

noyance in the practice of his profession both Ha ving thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire by Letters Patent to secure, is

1. In a device of the character described, a standard, a rotary cylindrical carrier journaled on said standard, a plurality of holders fast to the periphery of said carrier, said holders each adapted to receive and hold a bottle, and a socket fast to said carrier and adapted to receive and hold a lamp.

2. In a device of the character described, a standard consisting of a central stem and a plurality of side arms, a socket fast to each of said side arms, respectively, said sockets adapted to receive and hold receptacles, a I carrier rotatably supported on said central i stem, and means for detachably affixing bottlcs to said carrier.

3. In a device of the character described, a

fast to said carrier and concentric therewith,

said socket adapted to receive and hold a lamp.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand 1n presence of two subscriblng Witnesses.

ALBERT W. MCKENNEY. Witnesses:

CHARLES S. GoonrNo, ANNIE J. DAI'LEY. 

